CVE-2026-78588

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Filebeat can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An attacker able to reach the Filebeat HTTP ingestion endpoint could send specially crafted compressed requests that exhaust the memory resources of the Filebeat process.

  • Published Sep 2, 2026
  • CVSS 6.5 medium
  • 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-78588 at the National Vulnerability Database